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If carbon regulations restrict how much a company can pollute where it’s located, it could move operations (and jobs) to another country – with no reduction in emissions.
billy_wilson/flickrJanuary 31, 2017

China, the world's biggest greenhouse emitter, will set up a national emissions trading scheme beginning in 2017. Our experts react to the announcement, made during President Xi Jinping's US state visit.

A properly designed cap and trade scheme could lift Illinois out of the fog.
Kevin Lamarque/ReutersDecember 5, 2014

So-called cap and trade may be a solution to a problem it was not intended to solve: state budget crises. Cap-and-trade policy was designed to address climate change by putting a “cap” on carbon dioxide…

Despite regulatory uncertainty, business in the US and Australia is responding to climate change.
Flickr/KateAusburnMarch 17, 2013

Despite the widespread scientific consensus regarding anthropogenic climate change, ideological rhetoric dominates the global political discourse. This is preventing the development of clear policy frameworks…